Apprenticeships

As a social enterprise and major employer in the region, Livewell Southwest offers an award-winning apprenticeship scheme which is developing to meet the future needs of the services we deliver.

Helping people to develop their skills and learn new ones is good for our employees, enhances the services we offer and most importantly benefits the people who use those services.

We offer apprenticeships for people of all ages – it’s not just about young people. But we also recognised that lots of people interested in an apprenticeship as a way of starting a new career or developing wouldn’t be able to afford to live on the National Minimum Apprenticeship Wage. So we have made it a more realistic option by increasing entry level apprentice pay to £7.05. We know that when we invest in local people, the local community reaps the rewards.

We are constantly developing the range of apprenticeships we offer. We are creating a suite of apprenticeships which take employees through to Chartered Manager status with apprentices currently working in business administration, management, adult social care and business intelligence.

Nursing staff can start out in a support worker apprenticeship and progress on to Foundation Degrees, eventually becoming registered clinicians, due to our great working relationships with local training and higher education providers.

We were selected to be part of the successful National Nursing Associate pilot and have just recruited our third cohort.

Our apprenticeship scheme has already been singled out for praise – we were a finalist in the Apprenticeship Development category at the Plymouth Herald Business Awards in 2018, an award we won in 2016.

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About us

As an employee-led organisation, and the largest community health and social care enterprise in the UK, Livewell Southwest employs more than 3,000 members of staff who live and work in the local area. Being a not-for-profit organisation allows us to reinvest all our revenue back into the care we provide for our communities.

Our award-winning services are diverse and include: physiotherapy; psychotherapy and other community mental health services; community nursing; social work; children and young people’s services; wellbeing and health improvement services; pharmacies and services for people with learning disabilities. These are delivered either in the person’s home, or from our 12 locations across the southwest, which include minor injuries and recovery units, community or acute hospitals, clinics and dental access centres.